Another Baby Geese Quilt

 Awwwww geese. Almost feel like I can make them with my eyes closed! 

I bought these fabrics together on one of my Anaheim trips. Fun deciding how to pay them out. 

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Flying Geese for Baby

 I was asked to make a new baby quilt for a Great Grandchild (We are getting to that age!) for the baby of the church's choir director. She expressly asked for the "same quilt" I made for Dawn including the border fabric... a road map in neutral colors. This is the quilt Virginia fell in love with:  

http://anita-rancherita.blogspot.com/2023/02/happy-geese-2.html

The request was similar colors, not "baby colors" for a boy arriving in December. Okay! 

I used a basic 2“ geese; Cut body 2.5 x 4.5 and wings are 2.5" squares, snowballed on. 

Nice, huh?

I went to Anaheim after searching and not finding any more of the maps in my stash.... no luck finding THAT fabric, but found something similar. And $125 of other necessities. Uh huh. 

I did use some greens and blues juvenile fabrics.... cars and animals (and even a little paw patrol!) mixed with floral and geometries. No strong pinks..... still traditional like that. 

A large variety of neutrals for the geese wings. Very similar sideways setting, the map border.... simple loops quilting and a swoop border. Great bright stripe binding, blue and white back..... DONE!

Quilting loops and swoops

Happy Flying Geese

 Look at all these bright colors! I made 2 quilts from these happy quarter yards cuts purchased on sale at JoAnns. All the neutrals came from my wonderful stash!

SOLD on etsy

Happy Geese #2

 Made with the same fabrics but setting the Geese in a different pattern! 

Gifted to Mother  Dawn Starry when she left St Andrews for her own parish in Chicago.  Signed by the congregants. 

Baby Geese in Green

 I have made a few quilts from this green vehicles collection of fabrics. They are really cute, non traditional and just CUTE! 

So, traditional flying geese, set in columns, and made just because.

Pretty Baby Geese

 With subtle shades of pink and peach and a charm pack this sweet little collums of flying geese happened over a week's pleasure sewing. 

Update: SOLD

Brown Goose Quilt

 Inspired by a tutorial on Missouri Star Quilts named Brown Goose Quilt, I made the blocks smaller and set them with some sashing. They are yellow blocks with darker grey backgrounds and sashing. 

Memorial Quilt Alden William

We were expecting our second grandson in December, 2018, when we learned that he was affected by grave genetic annomalies and would not be able to survive.  I had been working on his baby quilt, with embroidered hobos accented with fabric tinting.  Set with flying geese in shades of blue.  Very similar to the quilt I made my first grandson.

We lost him 6 weeks before his due date, he died loved, inside the only home he ever knew.

Alden William Cortez.  November 6, 2018.

Migrating Geese Baby Quilt

After making my first Migrating Geese Quilt, I decided it would be fun to make one where the geese wandered a bit.  I chose some neutral colors and made it baby quilt sized.

Memorial Quilt for Alden William.

Migrating Geese Quilt

I love the simple designs made possible with a charm pack and white muslin.  It's a favorite combo for me.  This one is like that.  One block, repeated in columns, with soft white muslin in the background.  Quilted along the columns in 1/4 inch from the seams, after washing it made a nice shadow along the seams.

Happy Geese Quilt 1

For this generous lap quilt, the general idea was "Geese in columns, irregular amounts of them, all flying the same direction.  The geese are dark colored florals and the backgrounds are not."

I tried a layout with some going sideways, and decided that was for a different quilt, a different day!

I went fabric shopping with Shannon, my Co-Granny, in Anaheim and told her my task:  Buy an 8th of a yard of dark florals.  They don't have to match, I just have to LIKE them!  She helped me pick them out.  The backgrounds are all from stash.  Zillions of fabrics in stash!

There is ONE goose, a steely blue single goose, that was made with a scrap from the wedding quilt I made for my Father when he married his sweetheart when they were in their 80's.  A treasured memory of new love found later in life.

I completed a baby sized quilt from the scraps!

Since Shannon LOVES this quilt, I gifted it to her for her birthday. I kept the small one, with the same blue patch, as a memento of both my dad and of Shannon. 

Texas Geese in Flight Quilt

Da is 92, and I fly out every three months to visit.  So, I went out Father's Day, and rented a car, and we had fun!  We drove out to the country, and went and visited the former house he owned. We went to church on Sunday, and he saw a lot of old friends.  We ate BBQ and we went to a QUILT SHOP!  Ha ha, my suggestion of course!

I bought a yard of fabric on sale, a red with little white birds and tiny dark blue anchors on it, and that became the inspiration for this quilt which is a reminder of Dad. 

Flying Geese.  Because I love to make them. The block arrangement is called Dutchman's Puzzle.

It's 48 X 60, stitched in the ditch, a pretty simple quilt in red, white, black and grey... and a little navy.  And ummm, a patch or so of yellow.  Just because.

Triangles Wedding Quilt

Made for a young couple getting married, the daughter of a friend of mine marrying an Intern of Pete's.

It's a lap sized quilt, in muted colors with an occasional bright surprise, that was from a charm pack and I added grays and the big blue triangles. It has triangles, geese and half square triangles.  All blocks I love to make!

ABC Quilt (Square in a Square and Geese)

Zeke is two and a half, and is beginning to love ABC books read out loud.  Time for an Alphabet Quilt!  Went out to the stash, I knew I had several, (and I do!) but the one I found right on top was the perfect fabric!  I bought it..... some time ago.  Probably before being a Grandma!

The alphas were all little Richard Scarry drawings, many of them little silly vehicles,  and characters from his books.  I cut them all to a 4 1/2 inch square, then took a charm square, cut it diagonally in quarters, and made a simple square in a square.

The geese were charm squares cut to two 4 /12" by 2 1/2 rectangles, with 2 1/2 " squares used to make the geese points.

Warm and White inside gives this one a little firmer texture, since I will hang it on the wall primarily, in the dining room, so we can look at it and discuss it often!

SOLD on etsy

Baby Quilts for Twins

A new mom's first pregnancy was for twin girls! She selected the color "mint" for her decor.  I had started a pink quilt, but ended up really not liking it, so I was looking for a new idea when she told me her colors.  These were scraps from another project, and I always like geese units!  I had to buy the light peach, but the rest was completed from "stash."

Finished just in the nick of time, before they came home.  Congratulations!

Geese Pieces Quilt

After watching a tutorial on Missouri Star, I pulled out a pack of 1/8" cuts from my Fabric of the Month Collection, and put this together with some neutrals for the geese.

This quilt was gifted to Sandra Cooper, in gratitude for all the help she gave our family moving our parents into Assisted Living.

AYOQ: Bluework Baby Quilt

Starting of course with his Hand Stitched Bluework!  Welcome beautiful baby. I started this quilt, along with another one in redwork, for the baby before I knew if I would be welcoming a boy or a girl. It is hand embroidered and hand quilted. I did a lot of the hand work while staying with my father in Texas.

It's A Boy!

Restorative Geese

Having made the scrap blocks a few at a time over time, it was nice to find myself several hours to finish this homey quilt.  The scraps remind me of quilts past, the loved ones I made them for, and the occasion. Since I had a full mind of worries when I started, by the time I finished I was in my happy place. What a way to be restored!

Skellies and Geese for Miranda

This quilt is a cuddle quilt for Miranda to use when she is visiting Grandma Anne. I think it suits her.  Made when she was 14, it has feminine colors (but not girly) a strong symmetry, great skeletons in the borders, and he wild zig zag that she fell in love with when she saw it.

I bought the fabrics all at Quilt Run 2015.  At first, the skellies were for a different quilt, but I realized this is where they needed to be!

Arrowheads for Shannon

A lightweight spring quilt for the other grandmother of my Grandson.  Made with a 1/8ths pack of 12 fabrics (fabric of the month club!) and some white on white that belonged to my mother, and was in her Irish Chain prize winning quilt she made for my niece Carrie many years ago.  At one time she wanted to add a larger border to her hand-quilted double bed sized quilt, and so bought yards and yards of the fabric.  The quilt was already finished and bound.... THAT sounded like a project!  She didn't remake it, my niece adores it as is, and I have been able to add my mother's fabric to important sentimental quilts over the years.

Gifted to Shannon